Brian William Bowen
Associate Researcher
Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology
Ph.D., University of Georgia, 1992
bbowen@hawaii.edu
http://www.hawaii.edu/HIMB/Faculty/bowen.html
Brian William Bowen
 

Research Interests

Phylogeography, evolution, and conservation genetics of marine vertebrates.

Current goals:

  • resolve the life history traits (especially dispersal ability and habitat specificity) that influence dispersal and population separations in Pacific reef organisms.
  • test evolutionary models for how biodiversity is generated in the sea, including predictions for allopatric speciation, the center of accumulation hypothesis, and the center of origin hypotheses.
  • expand and refine the library of nuclear introns available for population genetic studies of marine fishes and other aquatic organisms.
  • provide phylogeographic surveys in the service of marine conservation, particularly to define management units and to assist the design of marine protected areas.

 

Selected Publications

 
Bowen, B.W., S.A. Karl, and E. Pfeiler. 2007. Resolving evolutionary lineages and taxonomy of bonefishes (Albulaspp.). In J.S. Ault (ed.) Biology and Management of the world tarpon and bonefish fisheries. CRC Press,Boca Raton, FL In press
Daly-Engel, T., R. Grubbs, B.W. Bowen, and R.J. Toonen. 2007. Frequency of multiple paternity in an unexploited tropical population of sandbar sharks (Carcharhinus plumbeus). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science In press
Craig, M.T., J.A. Eble, D.R. Robertson, B.W. Bowen. 2007. High genetic connectivity across the Indian andPacific Oceans in the reef fish Myripristis berndti (Holocentridae). Marine Ecology Progress Series In press
Schultz, J.K., R.L. Pyle, E. DeMartini, and B.W. Bowen. 2007. Genetic homogeneity among color morphs of the flame angelfish, Centropyge loriculus. Marine Biology In press
Bowen, B.W., W.S. Grant, Z. Hillis-Starr, D. Shaver, K.A. Bjorndal, A.B. Bolten, and A.L. Bass. 2007. Mixed stock analysis reveals the migrations of juvenile hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) in theCaribbean Sea. Molecular Ecology 16:49-60.
Grant, W.S., and B.W. Bowen. 2006. Living in a tilted world: climate change and geography limit speciation inOld World anchovies (Genus Engraulis). Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society 88: 673-690.
Duncan, K.M., A.P. Martin, B.W. Bowen, and G.H. de Couet. 2006. Global phylogeography of the scalloped hammerhead shark (Sphyrna lewini). Molecular Ecology 15:2239-2251
Bowen, B.W., A. Muss, L.A. Rocha, and W.S. Grant. 2006. Shallow mtDNA coalescence in Atlantic pygmy angelfishes (genus Centropyge) indicates a recent invasion from the Indian Ocean. Journal of Heredity 97:1-12.
Bowen, B.W. and J. Roman. 2005. Gaia’s handmaidens: the Orlog model for conservation biology. Conservation Biology 19:1037-1043.
Bowen, B.W., A.L. Bass, L. Soares, and R.J. Toonen. 2005. Conservation implications of complex population structure: lessons from the loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta). Molecular Ecology 14: 2389-2402.
Rocha, L.A., D.R. Robertson, J. Roman, and B.W. Bowen. 2005. Ecological speciation in tropical reef fishes. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 272:573-579.